From the uploader's library. The whole bound volume is scanned 600dpi in A3 2 pages at a time. Some pages have been rearranged for conveniency purposes in the last item (title page and index) so that everything fits neatly without any blanks.

This volume once belonged to the uploader's great-uncle, William Gunner, an amateur musician who lived for some time in Tiverton (Devon), like Francis Herring. The carefully handwritten additions are probably Herring's. The front cardboard covers were sewn together by the uploader's mother, but her son, the present uploader, was unfortunately less constructive when he thought fit (at a young thoughtless age) to scribble his name across the front cover. Partial information on F. Herring is to be found in the newspaper clipping W. Gunner added after the former owner's demise, but as this 'gazette' was/is no music magazine, it allowed other hobbies to intrude. And besides, there exists a discrepancy between the age of 90 presented in the newspaper which would put a date of birth of 1852 whereas MusicSack specifies 1862 which appears to be more in tune with F. Herring's biography. The journalist obviously had not marshalled his facts completely, a situation W.Gunner could not or did not care to correct either, with another pencilled annotation. The latter passed away well over 90 at Broadlands Retirement Home in Minehead (Somerset).

Köhler's arrangement of Haydn's '7 Worte' is based on the orchestral or choral version, as is made clear by A.Herring whose pencilled annotations do not come out well when scanned. Thus, we have a footnote for n°4 p.11, referring to the last stave but one, 4th measure which is marked with a (2) : "Qtt. (=Quartet) DC. with an added bar/if played with Qtt. the strings omit added bar (1) and proceed to (2)". On page 12 the closing measure is annotated thus : "In Qtt. the strings finish here & omit next page (not int Qtt.)". A similar remark is attached to n°5 p.15 stave 4, measure 3 : "Qtt. has D.C." and on page 20, end of stave 1 : "Qtt. has DC"